A concert reading by WBAI's Word Players about death, in five loosely defined movements: Statistical, Literary, Anthropological, Camp, and Reality. Sources include Edgar Allan Poe, William Shakespeare, the /World Almanac/, Catullus, Lewis Carroll, /The Book of the Dead/, Kenneth Lillquist, Arthur Machen, Rainer Maria Rilke, and the "Report of the National Advisory Committee on Civil Disorders." Produced and directed by Baird Searles for WBAI's Mind's Eye Theatre. This recording was formerly cataloged as BB3818.10B.
1969-01-12; 1969-01-16; 1969-08-21
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The Word Players, Performer; Baird Searles, Producer;